Researchers have hit upon a potential treatment for prostate cancer – starving tumour cells of a vital nutrient that fuels their growth. The study, conducted with lab grown human cells, reveals targets for drugs that could slow down early and late stage prostate cancer.
Current therapies include surgical removal of the prostate, radiation, freezing the tumour or cutting off testosterone supply, but there are often side effects, including incontinence and impotence. Growing cells need an essential nutrient, an amino acid called leucine, which is pumped into the cell by specialised proteins.
And this could be prostate cancer’s weak link. Jeff Holst and his team at the Centenary Institute found that prostate cancer cells have more pumps than normal. This allows the cancer cells to take in more leucine and outgrow normal cells, according to a Centenary statement. “This information allows us to target the pumps – and we’ve tried two routes.
We found that we could disrupt the uptake of leucine firstly by reducing the expression amount of the protein pumps, and secondly by introducing a drug that competes with leucine.
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Is the drug available on the market?how can i access it?
When is the drug reaching the 3rd world and common man ??????? The other thing is it just on research stage or it is getting clinical administration ?????????
Ba Tumfweko, your choice of title for this article is MISINFORMATION. This is a breakthrough… not a DISCOVERY of a cure… please quickly re-title this article. to BREAKTHROUGH IN PROSTATE CANCER TREATMENT RESEARCH
Ba fintu who complain about Tumfweko’s English please go start your own blogs. We are interested in the stories and not the language. Have you ever critised umusungu for not knowing Bemba?
HAVE SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE TO SAY?
I think this is a research stage, the medicine has not finally been made. they have to observe for some times before they put it on the market.
Ba tumfweko why is your date always ahead by a day? are you in Japan?
Uko, you do not understand the difference between a whiteman who speaks broken bemba and a professional reporter who should report facts in good English with clarity, comprehension and cohension. Know the difference and you would appreciate that correct reporting in standard English for a trained professional who has seen the walls of a college is a must. There is English for a specific purposes such as reporting that is taught in college such as Hone unless the reporter is a bush reporter. So do not compare a profession to a whiteman learning to speak bemba on the streets of Kasama. Please you are mistaken. Understand people’s complain along that line.
it’s not COHENSION but COHESION!!!!!! Naiwe wine be corrected! Author wakwisa….why not use spell check in MS Word? There is English for a specific purpose or There is English for specific purposes (singular/plural. Understand people’s complain? It’s people’s COMPLAINT, dammit!
Lunga I hear your cry. By the way, you don’t say “a specific purposes”
My point is why should our people be under so much pressure to learn a foreign language? Would it be fine with you if for instance Tumfweko reported in good Bemba? Why it is that we are so harsh on ourselves and very lenient on foreigners?
Uko, sorry for the typing error. We all should appreciate the fact that we are in a global village and that English is no longer a foreign laguage in this village but a tool of mass communication. It is one of three if not four international languges as Chinese comes with force on the world scene.Bemba has taken centre stage in Zambian communication nationally. Even if am not a Bemba but a Zambian I will do well to learn it as a tool for communication. I should not say it is foreign. It would be fine for me if Tumfweko reported in good Bemba but not broken Bemba. If you learn a language as a reporter you should learn it well in order to communicate effectively. Any other person can learn it for individual communication and even if it is broken it would matter less but for mass communaication wether on TV, radio or Newspaper it matters. Thats why if you write a book Uko you must find an editor to edit your book before selling it. Thank you.
gud n educating queries.
These guys they make u believe that this is when they ve found the treatment this is big lie all diseases have the cure and they found the cure long back in early 1930 and up to now they keep it to themselve and keep on threatening people over no cure its realy sad.
They ve contaminated all the food we are eating so the we die and belive that there is no cure big lie.
Imagine in all these big shops of food there in only 3% to 5% good food the rest is bad food that causes cancer,hiv,diebetic, high blood pressure,name it all is comming from the food you are eating and you sit there and believe that there is no cure big lie make an independent research then you will be a free person on earth so read more you will benefit.they keep vital info in books so read,
This is bad news for the drug cartel and good news for millions living with HIV/AIDS/cancer worldwide read more.
Top man or down man,i wonder which books you read pantu nabasungu abene ku myabo balafwa na AIDS,CANCER AND DIABETIS, so if i may ask which cure was found in the 1930 iyo bamifisa. ubu bufi or maybe you should start reading the right books.
You small Little Mafia if are sick just let me know l will link u fast no jokes -the king said my people will perish due to lack of knowledge,
Top Man you might have sense in what you say. My question is ‘if we know they are killing us, why do we continue sucking up to them? Why not be independent and grow our own food if that?’